The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-20
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N. DANIEL WILSON.
The Career of President Grevy's
SOn-in-Law.

NJ. Daniel Wilson is of Scotch descent
and was born at Paris in 1910. His
father came to France early in the CEN
fury. He was one of the first to intro
duce gas iHto Paris, and became one of
the founders of the company that has
since grown to be such monopoly.
The senior Wilson married Mile.
CazenaVe, whose father was one of the
vice presidents of the Corps Legislatif.
at Lis death he left two children-a
daughter, who became Madame Pelouze,
and the son whose name is to-day on all
lips.
Inheriting large fortune, Daniel
| Wilson blossomed into one of the most
noted of the youngest noceurs toward
the close of the empire, and his orgies
at the Cafe Anglais some twenty years
ago furnished plenty of copy" for the
chr0niqueurS OF that period. When he
had dissipated good part of his inner
itancs, his family asked for the ap-
| pointment of g guardian, IL order 10
save what remained of his patrimony.
In 1868 Nine. Pelouze, who, as chGte-
lame of ChenOnceauX, was well known
| throughout the Tourraine cOuI y, sue
ceeded in interesting NJ. de F.avrigny
aud some other Orleanist in her BROTH
er's political ambition. for the young
| Wilson turned straight about after the
appointment of his COnSeil judicidjre, and
showed as much activity IN his political
projects as he had previously displayed
in his amusements. M. de Flavrigny
and his associates were on the point
of starting al opposition newspaper,
and NJ. Wilson was accepted as one
OF the founders. Madame Pelouze had
long been very intimate friend of M
GreYy, who was the leader of the little
group of men that worked hard for the
overthrow of the imperial dynasty. This
| friendship, and his connection with the
new Union HberaIe, made Daniel Wilson
| q Deputy from Loches, in the Depart
ment of the lndre-et-Loire. When the
war broke out he did not follow the e1-
ample of some of his former companions
in gayety, who shouldered the musket
and showed that they could be brave as
well as giddy. He remained at Tours
and fortified his political situation.
After the war he was elected a mem Der
of the National Assembly, and has sncv
continued to represent, uninterruptediy.
one of the Tourraine districts. There
are other deputies from the Indre ct
Loire, but it is NJ. Wilson who owns the
department as though 1T were mere
rotten borough.
This position has been acquired and
strengthened by two circumstances;
his marriage with Mile. Grevy aud his
control of several newspapers through
out the country. Six years ago, when
N. Wilson became what the ParIsians
| call mister aon-in-law," he went to
live at EIysee. Some oli.fashioned PEI
sons thought that the Elvsee, being a
national palace, it would have been in
better taste for NJ. Wilson to take his
bride to home of his own, but they
we're too polite to say so out loud at
! first, because they respected the Presi-
dent, and did not wish to criticise too
severely what might, on pinch, pass as
a paternal desire to have his only child
always near him. The circumstance
would certainly have been forgotten if
| M. Wilson had not at once begun to
! branch out into all sorts OF 81 les and
| speculaUions that soon / hit his
| father's-in-law name into dis tssion.
| One of his first actions aI.er his
| marriage v as to establish at Tours a
| 1-cent new paper called the Petite
| France; the act tina. II. Wilson was tue
| Presidents On-ia-laW, and lived at the
| Elysee, at once gave the new paper an
immense start over all the Older journals
published in 1ourraine. This point
alone would have sufficed to put the
new enterprise firmly on its feet, but
NJ. Wilson went further. He used NJ
Grevy's ranking privilege to send his
newspaper and correspondence broad
cast over the country, and "bulldozed"
all the government employees and
persons asking faVors into subscribing
for the Petite France. Beside this, he
communicated to his newspaper lot
of official information before it was
published in the Journal OficjeI. In
| brief, he made such a vigorous cam
paign for his jotrnal that he was finally
accused of selling Little Francs
and the big The scandal grew so
marked that the subject was brought to
NJ. GreVy's attention at one OF the
Ministerial councils three years ago.
At that time Nj. Rane, leading Re
publican, cried to the Ministry: "If
you do not win up Wilson, he will
wind you upl"--which he did shortly
sfterward,
Journalism is only one of NJ. Will
sons enterprises. Beside controlling
several newspapers, and inspiring q
Partisan letter that is published by
nearly 300 country newspapers, he is
engaged in financial, commercial and
industrial schemes which his position
at the EIysee, and in Parliament gives
him powerful means to advance. At
the EIysee he receives a great many
more visitors than NJ. Grevy, and lis
corner OF the national palace is so
crowded during the day by persons
seeking his influence that a stranger
would imagine that he was the sole dis
pensor of public faYers. NJ. Wilson
occupies one corner of the palace. The
private apartments are on the first
floor, and are connected with the Office
on the ground floor by spiral stair
case. Adjoining the public and private
offices are three large rooms that con-
tain his library, which is very rich in
economical works, for N. Wilson has a
certain reputation as an economist, and
hopes some day to be Minister of
Finance. He has already been what We
sho1ld call Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. Two Librarians keep run Of
all these books, and the new additions
constantly made, while :our secretaries
attend to the multifarious affairs OF the